birthday – Amanda Bella

Becoming Bella: 29 Things I’ve Learned in 29 Years

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a Happy Father’s Day. 🙂

This post is something I’ve wanted to put together for a while. I see a lot of people create their own “X Things I’ve Learned in X Years” list that they’re able to add to every year and I really love the idea. It’s the morning after my 29th (gasp) birthday and I woke up feeling so grateful for so many things. I thought I would turn this into a mini Becoming Bella post and share my own list of personal lessons (to date!) that have proved to be so darn valuable! I hope you enjoy. XO

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June 19, 2017 | 22 Comments

Lifestyle

28.

Today is my 28th birthday – holy moly. If you’ve followed my blog over the last year, you know that it’s been a wild 365 days [to say the least], but I intended it to be! 🙂

This post is LONG, and kind of personal, but I wanted to write it for me. If you do read through it, I hope that it inspires or resonates with you. I also hope it makes some kind of sense, it’s currently 4:08AM — eeeek! Enjoy! XO

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June 18, 2016 | 67 Comments

Inspiration, Lifestyle

27.

Tomorrow I turn 27. #scary

This year, I’ve taken my birthday as an opportunity to step back and kind of reevaluate my life. For the past few months, I’ve been thinking about where I am, where I thought I would be, and where I still want to go…

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June 17, 2015 | 10 Comments

Family, Food, Friends, Lifestyle

Spring Weekend — Birthdays & Bridal Showers

The warm weather arrived in CT — and just in time for a fun weekend! My sister turned 20 on Saturday & my college roommate had her bridal shower on Sunday! It was definitely busy, but I loved every moment! Here’s a peek at my camera roll 🙂

Weekend mani! Blue Forever 21 polish - no name though :( — Weekend mani! Blue Forever 21 polish – no name though 🙁

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April 20, 2015 | 8 Comments

Family, Lifestyle

Happy Birthday LilyMama! XOXO

My beautiful Mom turned 50 over the weekend! She is the most wonderful woman you’d ever meet, I’m so lucky to have such a special lady in my life. She’s always putting everyone else before herself, she has the most positive outlook on life, and lives everyday with such a full heart. She is simply beautiful from the inside out & just radiates with joy & love. I hope that I can become half the woman that she is one day. 🙂

To honor her big day, we planned a clambake at our home & were SO happy to have so many friends & family members come out to celebrate! Thank you to everyone who attended, and to my wonderful family for helping my Dad, siblings & I pull this together! It was such a fun night 🙂

Below is a slideshow of pictures from the party.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I love you.

#LilyMamas50 🙂

Enjoy! XO

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[[FYI – We hired Capt’n Johns Clambakes out of Norwalk, CT to cater the event – they did SUCH a wonderful job. I can’t stop raving about how excellent their staff & food was.]]

July 21, 2014 | 1 Comment